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There was a massive outcry over PM Lee's National Day Rally on his 'advice' on how to adjust to the rising cost of living. The best weapon against rising cost of living is to increase our salaries. However, despite of PAP's boast about higher GDP growth, the salaries of Singaporeans has hardly catch up with the inflationary... 

I refer to the article “Review ‘no air-conditioning’ norm for subsidised wards?” (Straits Times, Aug 17). It states that “Singapore has progressed significantly in the past decades. Yet, when it comes to hospital care, it is still sticking to some principles set out 25 years ago. Some have been discarded, but on an... 

The late Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first prime minister, was grievously flawed in his reasoning and arithmetic when he pegged his and his PAP ministers’ salaries to the earnings of our island republic’s top ten businessmen, professionals and corporate leaders. Firstly, none - at best only one - of his ministers had ever...